The University of California (also referred to as Berkeley, California, or simply Cal) is a public research university located in Berkeley, California, United States. The university occupies 1,232 acres (499 ha) on the eastern side of the San Francisco Bay with the central campus resting on 178 acres (72 ha). Berkeley is the most selective public university in the United States. It offers approximately 350 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in a wide range of disciplines.Established in 1868 as the result of merger of the private College of California and the public Agricultural, Mining, and Mechanical Arts College in Oakland, Berkeley is the oldest of the ten major campuses affiliated with the University of California (UC). Berkeley has been charged with providing both "classical" and "practical" education for the state's people and is the flagship institution in the University of California system. Berkeley co-manages three United States Department of Energy National Laboratories, including the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory for the U.S. Department of Energy.Berkeley faculty, alumni, and researchers have won 71 Nobel Prizes (including 28 alumni Nobel laureates), 9 Wolf Prizes, 7 Fields Medals, 15 Turing Awards, 45 MacArthur Fellowships, 20 Academy Awards, and 11 Pulitzer Prizes. To date, UC Berkeley and its researchers are associated with 6 chemical elements of the periodic table (Californium, Seaborgium, Berkelium, Einsteinium, Fermium, Lawrencium) and Berkeley Lab has discovered 16 chemical elements in total a?? more than any other university in the world. Berkeley is a founding member of the Association of American Universities and continues to have very high research activity with $652.4 million in research and development expenditures in 2009. Berkeley physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer was the scientific director of the Manhattan Project that developed the first ato

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Sheffer is a senior fellow at the Institute of European Studies at the University of California Berkeley. I spoke with her about the potential significance of the name change, and the issues involved in diagnosing it and other mental conditions ...

... in the system are football and basketball coaches at the University of California Los Angeles and the University of California Berkeley, who make millions each year. The proposed amendment would also require the president to report expenditure ...

Born in 1929 in Arlington, Virgina, Urbanske attended the University of California-Berkeley and earned a degree in economics. After graduating, he enlisted in the Marines and moved back to Virginia, where he was stationed at Quantico. There, he met Barbara ...